Chapter 110: The Breaking Point
They felt like they were being hit in the gut by the silence. Elara didn’t have anything in her arms.
The babies were gone. The man was gone like smoke, and the twins went with him.
"NO!" Elara screamed and fell to her knees. "Bring them back!" There was nothing, though. There was only the sound of her broken heart and an empty forest.
Everything within fifty feet of Kael’s ice became frozen when it burst. Trees broke. The ground broke up. He had no more power over anything.
They heard him yelling, "Find them!" at his pack fighters. "Search everywhere!" "Where do we even start?" Beta Rivers couldn’t help but ask.
"He just disappeared!" Dark shapes around Darian moved quickly, like scaly snakes. "Magic. More advanced magic. This wasn’t a coincidence." "He knew about the twins," Luna Evelyn said in a low voice.
"He was waiting for them to be born." Ronan stood still. It looked like snow on his face. His hands were shaky. Other people were giving directions, making plans, and trying to figure out what to do next.
Ryan couldn’t move, though. Not able to think. Couldn’t breathe. The kids were gone. His children were gone. Just like everyone else who had ever mattered to him. "Ronan!" Kael grabbed his brother’s shoulders.
"We need your strength. Help us track them!" But Ronan just stared at the spot where the stranger had been. "They’re not coming back," he said softly.
"Don’t say that!" Elara cried. "We’ll find them!" "No." Ronan’s voice was hollow. Empty. "People leave. They always leave." Darian frowned. "Brother, what are you talking about?"
For the first time in years, Ronan’s berserker rage wasn’t there. Instead, there was something much worse. Fear. Pure, bone-deep fear. "My wolf," Ronan breathed. "She left too." Everyone went quiet.